JavaScript Tools

jQuery Plugins

http://www.awkwardgroup.com/sandbox/awkward-showcase-a-jquery-plugin/

Very cool show case, slides can be interactive.

http://jamielottering.github.com/DropKick/

Cleaner drop-downs

http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/

Knob style controls

http://www.designchemical.com/lab/jquery-drill-down-menu-plugin/examples/

Drill down. Lets the user move up and down through a tree

http://duopixel.com/extremes/

Simple, just places links in a circle

http://zikes.github.com/circle-menu/examples/

Circular menus - I really like the nested in a corner example, that could be really cool.

http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/

This is just cool - I'm not sure how easy it would be to work with, but it could be really good.

http://masonry.desandro.com/

http://yconst.com/web/freetile/

This could help with some of my CSS frustration

http://gridster.net/

Draggable grid

http://www.jqplot.com/

Every type of graph EVAR

http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored

Slides in javascript

Development Tools

jsFiddle

Frameworks

In working on my Tasks program, I began to realize how badly I needed a framework. I initially tried to handle the organization myself with a Core and a UI connected by listeners, but I couldn't get anything I was really happy with and even the decent attempts would not have scaled well.

Backbone

Library of utilities not a framework. Meh, looks very MVCish, not the dynamic environment I want.

Knockout

MVVM, sounds pretty good. Microsoft pushing it so hard makes me wary.

Spine

Lightweight.

Sammy

Also light, basic structure